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U-Now sees the University of Nottingham become (as far as I am aware) the first University in the UK to make collections of educational materials freely available via the Web (and for downloading and for use - and sometimes modification - in, for example, our own VLE). The resources are drawn from widely across the University, but relevant to the Arts are the following (click 'view resource' in the 'file details' box on the right of the screen):

Knowtes calls itself a flashcard-based learning community - with an 'adaptive learning engine', which means that it adjusts how often you repeat study cards based on how well you've done on previous attempts. This looks fantastic for such as languages - although at the moment there's not so much here (a fair bit of Spanish language and an esteemed colleague who's learning Spanish has been engrossed since finding the site!). Still, I suppose this is a typical Web 2.0 idea, whereby we the community will populate the cards - where the framework for development is there and if you wish to learn something yourself, why not help others to learn it, too, by using the site as your own learning space...Knowtes